The private institution has been ordered to pay around eight million yen ($62,000; £50,400) in compensation to the women after the judge ruled that the women had suffered emotional distress as a result of the university’s “irrational and discriminatory” policies, Kyodo News quotes the judge as saying. Source link

Education in Africa is based on post-colonial curriculums whose content taught little and often skewed African history and culture and its place in the world. We went to the Children in Freedom School in Kenya to find out how their Afrocentric approach differs from the norm, and how the parents and students have embraced it.

In response, Ofsted’s Dr Jasper Green told the committee that school inspectors were already addressing how to improve girls’ participation in science and maths, “but we are focusing on the quality of education, on early education, on subjects, and all of those moves are the right ones to encourage wider participation at A-level”. Source link

Alongside Sheeran, other inspirational people include footballer Marcus Rashford, children’s author Beatrix Potter, BBC wildlife presenter Sir David Attenborough, teenage environmentalist Greta Thunberg, US civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks and pop star David Bowie. Source link

Youth workers will visit the homes of children absent from school, police commissioner says. Source link

ChatHealth allows teenagers aged 11 to 19 to get help with a range of health issues via text message. Source link

School caterers will have to shrink portions or use cheaper ingredients, a major food wholesaler warns. Source link

Funding for music teaching in Wales is trebling to £4.5m per year from September. Source link

For many the return to school life after the height of the Covid pandemic could not come quickly enough. But for some it has caused real anxiety. Attendance in Welsh schools has consistently dipped below 90% in recent months. Before Covid, it averaged 94%. Education Minister Jeremy Miles has warned fixed penalty notices could be

A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “During the present cost of living crisis where parents are already struggling to make ends meet, imposing fines on parents who take their children on holiday during term time, and on parents who cannot get their children to go to school, for whatever reason, is absolutely unjust, and could